Will antiobiotics ease the hurting of a necrotic tooth?

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Spring
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I am experiencing awful pain in the back left part of my mouth. The only relief I get is from swishing cold water in my mouth. But as soon as I spit the hurting returns. I am told that this indicates gaseous necrosis of the tooth and that the reason the water helps, is because it eases the pressure of the building gas. What precisely is gaseous necrosis? Is it an infection? I know it means my tooth is dying but does that indicate their is an infection?

Ibuprofen was helping ease the hurting up until nowadays but now nothing helps, except to swish bloodless water. Will taking an antibiotic like Cipro or Amoxicillin ease the pain until I can see a dentist next week?


Speckles
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you need to see the dentist nowadays. necrosis in the mouth can easily lead to blood poisoning...sepsis....very, very poor. necrosis is basically death of tissue. as the tissue dies it not only rots but is consumed rapidly by bacteria. the byproduct of the bacteria eating your dying tissue is gas. you need antibiotics, narcotics and the dentist needs to take care of the dead tooth.

when i had a dying nerve in my tooth it took a full day before the antibiotics began to help the pain by ridding infection.

keerok
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Necrosis of the tooth may lead to brain or heart damage. Go see a dentist now.

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